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New House Projects – Weather Watching V0.5

I’ve always been fascinated with the weather. I can still remember the daily routine of charting the weather in kindergarten with meticulous scientific rigor: Each morning one pupil, on a rotation, would peer out a window and then mark down if it was sunny, or cloudy, or possibly raining. Growing up in New Hampshire I used to follow the extreme weather on Mount Washington. And, as a lover of metrics and data, I love the idea of contributing my own, hyper-local, data to the larger pool available for weather predicting and archiving.

Life is funny though, and when I finally saved up and bought a nice weather station for home we decided we needed to move.… Click here to read more!

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New House Projects – Network 2.0

Ok – So, take one of this project didn’t go as planned. I don’t regret the choices I made, and while I’m very happy with how everything is working today. it’s not the setup I had hoped for. So, where did I end up?

Firstly – I ended up ordering a firewall from Protectli, the VP2420, which I ordered with Coreboot BIOS. Performance has been great, it was easy to setup, and the 2.5Gb ports work great. My only gripe is that the console port on the unit isn’t a true serial port. It’s a USB serial adapter, for which only drivers for Windows exists.… Click here to read more!

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New House Projects – Network Planning and Setup

EDIT - 11.1.2024 - I have changed many of the equipment choices listed below, which will be another blog post. The equipment from FS has been a total disaster, and the Qotom firewall, while effective, lacked the usability I really wanted in such an important device. The FS wireless equipment is likely to be e-waste, which is horrible, but the Qotom will live on, just in a different role

We’re in the process of moving from our apartment to a house to call our own. It will be somewhere I can drill holes, make improvements, and really nerd-out. The new spot has, if you can believe it, access to symmetric 2 Gigabit internet service for under $100/month.… Click here to read more!

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Simple Linux Kernel Picker

I run Fedora in my home-lab as the base OS for my server. It works well for me but I do occasionally run into an issue where Fedora will make a new kernel available before the ZFS project has support for it. When that happens I have to change from the most current kernel to something that I can have a dkms module built for.

I do this once or twice a year and I never remember the commands. So, here’s a script that will do it for me.

Run the script as a normal user and it will list your installed kernels.… Click here to read more!